There are few sounds that can paint a more vivid picture than the ominous and simple theme created by composer John Williams for the 1975 film “Jaws.”
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7/14/22
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I am a child, scavenging the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. I am 6 or 8 or 10; I can’t recall. Many of the world’s greatest works of art stare down at me. I am unimpressed. My eyes are fixed on the oak floor.
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3/8/19
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The possibility that the Democratic Party will lose control of the U.S. Senate in November has put Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in attack mode.
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4/17/14
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When Emanuel ‘Manny’ Levine was thrown out of a pool hall in Borough Park Brooklyn, then crashed a New Year’s party as 1939 became 1940, he didn’t know he would met his future wife, Mickey.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/13/13
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From the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel, it’s a very short drive to downtown Chicago, America’s third most populous city, also known as the “Windy City,” the “City With Big Shoulders,” “Second City,” and “Chi Town.”
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MARCIA ABRAMSON
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4/14/11
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